Operations Minutes: February 15, 2005

Members Present: Dennis, Cindy S., Karla, Don, Hareem Park, Joe Cavanaugh, Theresa
Guests: Key Club members, Betsy Hoell

Relay for Life Event at CHS

Betsy presented Key Club’s proposal to have a CHS Relay for Life event (cancer support organization) from 2:00-10:00pm on Friday, May 20th. This would include a youth relay, awards, games & competitions and dinner? Their mission is to generate community spirit at Churchill, create awareness of health risks, encourage physical fitness and raise money for cancer research. The overall goal is to have clubs, sports teams, teachers and classes create Relay for Life teams. These teams would develop their own identity and activities to raise money and awareness for Relay for Life. Discussion centered around how to plan it logistically and include supervision. We suggested using a :40 assembly schedule. We approved their moving forward with the planning of this.

Handprint Murals: It was suggested that the person printing could also date/initial their print. This will be happening Friday after school.
Pep Assembly: March 11th was requested for Mr. Lancer and Winter Sports (end of season) pep assembly. This was discussed, as to what sports would still be going on. Hareem will check into some other dates and get back to the group.
Building Calendar: There have been scheduling conflicts between groups practicing and otherwise using the facilities in the last few weeks (actually longer than that, but…). Staff, advisors, and coaches need to remember that facility scheduling is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please see your Staff Bulletin for the new process. If it’s not on highschoolsports.net, it’s not on the schedule.
Event Sign: Seniors are contemplating purchasing an inside event readerboard, near the student lounge, with some extra money as a senior gift to the school. This is still being discussed. The sign they are looking at is $7K. The Siuslaw Bank sponsored outdoor readerboard that was brought up a year or two ago was surfaced and Joe said it would try to look into it.

Revising Assembly Schedules: Dennis presented new, revised assembly schedules. These will be voted on at the Staff Meeting.
Parking: Special Parking spots for Visitors and IHS teachers was discussed and approved. There will be more discussion about this.

New dates added in Operations: These will be part of Staff Bulletins. Please remember to read your Staff Bulletins! There is important information you all need to know about!
Hallways: The noise level and student loitering in the hallways is increasingly disruptive during classes. It was suggested that we paint lines on the floor, or have SOME visual that reminds kids that they cannot be in the hallways (except Student Lounge) hanging out and being loud during classes. They should be in the Student Lounge, Library, outside, etc. and the possibility of having administrators out reminding/training kids that they can’t hang out where they are making disruptive noise. Spring/now should be a good time to start working on it as more are outside anyway. Dennis and Cindy will attend leadership to discuss further.

Process Advocate
There have been several comments on the attendance appeal process and why there is much missing information (reasons, missing signatures, etc.). We need to discuss the entire policy and get back into the “legal” realm.
Class Disruptions
It was brought up that there seems to be a lot of disruptions so far this semester (Blue Days). We should work together as a group, and a staff, to help keep educational time disruptions to a minimum.
Pledge of Allegiance
We have somehow “dropped” the pledge of allegiance from the Monday daily announcements? We will make sure this gets picked back up.